Hasta La Ideas

Tiny dimples and raised dots cover these ceramic tiles by French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec.

Designed for Italian brand Mutina, the Pico collection comes in white, grey, sand, red or blue and can have spots of colour applied to the little hollows.

The material’s slightly irregular texture and matte surface references earth floors and cement, revealing the compressed particles of sand and minerals. See more tiles and all our stories about ceramics here.

Mutina will present Pico in Bologna this September. See more stories about Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec here.

Here are some more details from Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec:

We are pleased to present the new ceramic collection Pico, designed for the Italian brand Mutina.

While in recent years tiling mainly produced icy surfaces hiding the material depth, Pico focuses on revealing the matter as a substance itself – the compressed sand and minerals that constitute ceramic tiles. We intended to maintain the raw aspect of traditional earth floors or handmade cement, letting the material convey its natural characteristics.

The collection comes in three differently coloured bases (white, grey and sand), composed of specific mineral mixtures that produce surfaces with a real material depth. The subtly composed shades have a matt finish with a sensual surface feel. Together with its slightly irregular dotted texture Pico produces gentle surfaces that stand in contrast with the extreme brightness and slickness of today’s coating materials.

In this collection we have worked on defining a regular-irregular texture, the result is the declension of two relief surfaces: “Down” with sunken dots and “Up” with elevated dots. Both reliefs are available in their natural, monochrome base colours: “blanc,” “gris” and “terre”.

Furthermore, to add dynamics, we also decided to use two tones of colour, red and blue, applied as little dots in the hollow or as a base colour. The use of colours activates the relief by creating delicate shadows, turning the tiles a nuance colder or warmer.

We wanted to use the ceramic material in a very flexible way consequently the Pico collection is equally adapted for use in public spaces (airports, restaurants) as for use in domestic spaces (indoors and outdoors).

Pico collection will be presented during the fair Cersaie in Bologna, Italy from September 20th to September 24th 2011. Pavilion 22 A218 – B209.

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Another week and another chance to say “You’re welcome, universe, for giving you such wonderful ideas.” Of course we’re talking about the credit we should be duly given, first for the city of Bristol deciding that it might need a registry of pieces of Banksy‘s street art, something we’d suggested might be a good idea so their residents don’t accidentally keep painting over them after one of its residents accidentally painted over one. Now that same sort of idea has come out on a larger scale with a whole iPhone app. Called Banksy Locations, the app not only offers galleries and videos of pieces by the mysterious artist, but will also “show you locations of Banksy’s famous street art and then give you directions so you can experience them for your self!” Granted, the app was announced back in early July and we didn’t write our post recommending a registry until the 15th, but we’re still just going to keep claiming everything Banksy-related as stemming from our borderline-divine, shared inspiration. Seems easier that way. Anyway, here’s the app’s promo video:

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Segnalo un evento che può interessare tutti coloro che lavorano nei vasti ambiti della creatività, e che si svolgerà a Forlì dal 9 al 10 settembre 2011. Data la vicinanza con Cesena, è probabile che vi partecipi anche io quindi se ti troverai a Forlì in quei giorni contattami pure.
L’innovazione responsabile è il nuovo evento di “L’arte di innovare“, un’iniziativa creata dalle istituzioni al governo della Romagna con l’obiettivo di innalzare la propensione all’innovazione della classe dirigente del territorio. Innovazione intesa non solo in senso scientifico-tecnologico ma in una accezione più ampia che include anche l’innovazione sociale.
Sono previste conferenze alternate a mostre, laboratori eventi e spettacoli per tutti i gusti, che si rivolgono a liberi professionisti, imprenditori ma anche comuni cittadini.

Il programma delle conferenze lo trovi qui; le più interessanti per i lettori di Elmanco mi sembrano ” Cultura e linguaggi dell’innovazione“, ” Design network internazionali per l’innovazione locale“, “Innovazione creativa: buoni esempi” e ” Diritto dell’Immagine nella comunicazione d’impresa e nella Informazione“.

In questa pagina è pubblicato l’elenco  delle mostre e degli eventi: ci sono laboratori di teatro e scrittura creativa, esposizioni artistiche e un interessante giro della città insieme a Spazi Indecisi. La partecipazione è naturalmente gratuita.

Sempre in questa occasione ci sarà un’anteprima dei progetti selezionati da RCD per il concorso Into the pattern che avevo segnalato su Facebook poco tempo fa.
Innovazione responsabile è infatti un evento sostenuto dal Romagna Creative District un social business network di cui tornerò presto a parlare.

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